Gates v. Kenney

Deceased, Sarah J. Mills, was the owner in her lifetime of a farm of 140 acres in Berlin township, Ionia county. On February 25, 1920, she leased it to defendant for five years beginning the first of the following March. The rent was crop rent, and the provision for it found in the lease, and the provision over which this litigation arises, is as follows:

“And the said party of the second part does hereby hire the said premises for the term of five years as *188above mentioned, and does covenant and promise to pay to the said party of the first part, her representatives and assigns, for rent of…